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Month and date Event type Details 2009: February 24: Company: Jan Koum incorporates WhatsApp in USA. [2] 2009: August: Product: WhatsApp 2.0 is released on the App Store for the iPhone. [3] 2009: October: Funding: Brian Acton persuades five ex-Yahoo! friends to invest $250,000 in seed funding, and is granted co-founder status. [2] 2009 ...
WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger) is an American instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta. [14] It allows users to send text , voice messages and video messages, [ 15 ] make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.
WhatsApp Timeline; Feb 24, 2009: Jan Koum incorporates WhatsApp in California. [1] Aug 2009: WhatsApp 2.0 is released on the App Store for the iPhone. [2] Oct 2009: Brian Acton persuades five ex-Yahoo! friends to invest $250,000 in seed funding, and is granted co-founder status. [1] Aug 2010: WhatsApp support for Android (operating system) is ...
WhatsApp first introduced a similar limit in 2018, when it restricted users from forwarding a message to more than five people or groups at once. While announcing the new restriction earlier this ...
Australia becomes the first country to have an age ban for under 16 on social media. [134] 2025 Milestone TikTok is banned on United States only for 12 hours, making its first app in the United States to be banned, leading large amount of users migrating to RedNote. On January 18, 2025, the day before the deadline of the law, TikTok suspended ...
1999: America Online has over 18 million subscribers and is now the biggest internet provider in the country, with higher-than-expected earnings. It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December.
During the first 15 days after Kik's re-release as a messaging app, over 1 million accounts were created. [102] In May 2016, Kik Messenger announced that they had approximately 300 million registered users, and was used by approximately 40% of United States' teenagers.
PARIS/MOSCOW (Reuters) -Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly after landing on a ...